Artist statement: Below is the link for my performance
video. In the video, I am doing nothing but cartwheels. I am doing cartwheels
in 3 sets as many times as I could from the starting point to its endpoint. The
inspiration behind this performance is, one day I was walking by the quad and
saw children laughing and enjoying themselves doing cartwheels. That put a
smile on my face as I used to enjoy doing cartwheels myself as a kid. I tried
doing the same thing now as an adult and I realized that it wasn’t fun for me
anymore to do cartwheels. Instead, it was tiring and dizzying. My legs also
hurt the whole entire time I was shooting this video. It comes to that
realization that even if you are still a kid at heart or still appreciate what
you appreciated as a kid, there is a part of you who will not enjoy the same
things you enjoyed as a kid because it is simply just not the same. You are
older, more tired, less innocent, less free and less carefree at that.
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